if you take offf the amount for the jackpot amount of $4M, leaves close to $11M in prize money.! and we dont have a $80 mill pot being chased or , 300M people, or $1 a tickets.Im not blowing our own horn, im just wondering where the money goes, or do aussies really spend more money than americans on lotto?

oh i looked at our power ball game, only $3M in prizes, but then the jackpot got won last week., and starting prize amount is only $3M. so generally the weakest amount of playing .

"It will take significant analysis of Mega Millions, Powerball and State Lotto trends after the Powerball increase to make a decision. That, couple with the implementation needs, make it extremely likely that it won't happen in 2012."

And I don't give that much credibility to Twitter where everything twittered must be fact. Hopefully the MM twitter speculators won't be twittering while driving.

I doubt that there will be a raise in prices...as MUSL is a joint venture.

the PB sales will be a little down this draw because i could not get in my 3 or 4 million quick picks due to some ridiculous cut off time.

We have to remember there are states that offer both games and each state is responsible for the secondary prizes. If PB sales are down because of the price increase or lower than expect jackpot sizes, but if MM sales are up, it could be a wash or even more profitable when the MM jackpot is $100 million and rolls a couple of times.

If both games were $2 a ticket and both jackpots were at near minimum levels, it would affect ticket sales more in the states that offer have both games and because of this, those states are probably against any increase in MM tickets.

We have to remember there are states that offer both games and each state is responsible for the secondary prizes. If PB sales are down because of the price increase or lower than expect jackpot sizes, but if MM sales are up, it could be a wash or even more profitable when the MM jackpot is $100 million and rolls a couple of times.

If both games were $2 a ticket and both jackpots were at near minimum levels, it would affect ticket sales more in the states that offer have both games and because of this, those states are probably against any increase in MM tickets.

regarding sales of tickets...i think MUSL is assuming(and hoping,and betting) that if somebody decides to play the MM instead of PB they will automatically play 2 MM tickets...as opposed to 1 PB ticket...if people do this the original sales cap agreement can be easily reached...but will this be the case? who knows...does this statment make sense to everybody? if the MM price increases to $2...people will not have the choice to opt volume over cost/prize payout increase.

I think they did the big powerball switch-over in january so that people with subscriptions of 2011 would end their subscriptions in december 2011 and not have deal with confusions and interruptions.

That would only work if subscriptons are for the calendar year. I don't know about PB or other states, but NY offers subscriptions for MM that run for either 26 weeks or 52 weeks, and you can buy anytime. I'm sure the fine print allows them to cancel your subscription and give you a credit or a refund without having any particular reason.

as there are 46 balls in the barrel , the odds of 36 coming up next time are 1 in 46. , same as every other number. there's no magnet in ther repulsing 36, well at least i hope not.

now if you want 2 in a row, you mean whats the chance for the next 2 Mega balls to drop 36?

that would be 1 in 2116 ;ie 1/46 x 1/46.

you cant use the resuult form before of 36 as anything other than 1 as its a certainty, you know the chance of it being 36 is 100% because its already happened, and the chance it is anything else is zero because it isnt anything else.